Topic: Amerithai Education International, Suratthani

[Alliecat]

Goodness,
I'm sooooo glad Mr. Amerithai is back!  He is a liar and all we had to do to prove this was let him speak...Who knew?  Well actually...we did.  We have moved on for great jobs in ####(husband doesn't feel it wise to let liar pants know where we are as he's so freaky).   For those of you who haven't figured it out...Mr. A. is a scary psycho and you are not the only people to fall for his BS.   Our reps are a disaster in Surat Thani.  If we'd kept quiet we would have been OK but we don't tolerate bullies! We ARE qualified teachers and anyone who has taught in Korea knows how strict the requirements are there...no Koh San Road degrees would fly there!  Just another lie...but who can count anymore?  And thank you for posting my husband's name in @@@'s rant... that makes it all worth it.  By the way the Irish gent Big Amerithai slandered is a real stand up guy...just for the record.  Hope someone besides us reads these posts and saves themselves some grief.

Cheers

[windex]

So many lies by Mr. Amerithai it would take me a month to refute them all. But it's nice to see him get caught on that fake post... It's definitely a fake: "Gracious girl" even says "if owner sees this" yet when Mr. Amerithai is busted he fumbles up a quick "but that's because I lent her my computer!" Like most liar's webs it has gotten tangled and oh my, he does have much practice at deceiving.                           

A couple of his more ridiculous assertions I will rebuke:

1) My degree and my teacher's clothes travel with me wherever I go. I have a General Studies degree with an extended minor in Geography from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. Not a prestigious degree, mind you, but easily verifiable and I did show it to you, sir.

2) Your "girlfriend" loaned Allie one skirt. She had two already but after the drama her wearing business style slacks caused at your precious Manita we both felt just wearing what the Thai teachers were wearing for awhile would be best. And you told her she could wear pants.

Bangkok Phil, for the record: We had four large suitcases filled with quite appropriate attire. We lived in Bangkok 3 weeks before deciding to take the job in Surat, hardly "bumming around"... and we had about three thousand U.S. dollars when we arrived in Surat. Our mistake was loving the location too much and deciding to furnish our house. So, when Mr. Amerithai robbed us it hurt bad.

3) The third teacher (our friend) never worked for the other school director. You turned her off teaching for good Mr. Amerithai. She did seek his help too, but all he gave her was advice.
 
4) We stayed at your "home" for 6 days Mr. Amerithai. You stated that you hired us on the 28th 0f November... we moved into our house on the 4th of December... You have no furniture dude. Not even a chair to sit in. Everything else you keep locked in your room, including two televisions.

There are so bloody many outright lies in the posts in which you used your real identity... my god... it defies belief... where did you come up with this stuff?

But it's good to see you outed faking posts from happy former teachers... did you even consider asking one of them to write something first? No, I didn't think so. I can almost hear you yelling at your poor sweet girlfriend to get to the internet cafe now to post. Those months of hard budgeting we had to go through after we left Amerithai were worth it if only for the peace of not hearing your terrible abuse towards her. And K/G (his girlfriend), if you read this: we all hope for better things for you. Help yourself and get away from him.

[Ken]

I work for AmeriThai right now and I feel that I have to reply to a lot of this farago of trite that is coming out in inuendo and inexatitude of truth.
Some may not like this owner of AmeriThai, but then a lot of people don't like Thai owners either, so what's the difference?  I have to speak as I find and I have found nothing but generosity with the man.  He put myself and my girlfriend up for 2 nights whilst he got us an apartment - not many do that.  He often takes teachers to school, not many do that either and he has 2 teachers living in his house rent free for the last 3 weeks, please show me who does that!  I lost some money and he gave me 3,000 baht - gave me!
No, we al have sides to us that rub up some peole the wrong way, but then it seems that some use the Internet to pile on unsound unendos to justify their questionable self-worth.  Sure there are issues you can have out with a boss, but some of us say it straight and then get on with life.  Sadly Thailand seems to have a sad, loser magnet atached to it. For some reason it draws in the lost, disafected and immature. 
Trust me, working here is easy. I work from 9.30 - 11;30 get and hour for lunch then from 12.30 - 2.30 or 3.30 on other days.  I dont go in at 7.30 and salute the flag, I dont have to waste hours of my week waiting for lessons to arrive.  i dont have to hang aroun till 4.00 to sneak home.  Look at the vilification these people are desperately spurting out and you will see it is eating away at them and making it seem worse than the reality.  Pity them, I do - I finished at 2.30 today.
Ken

[Uncle Che]

Irregardless of any other facts, the owner of Amerithai runs a life experience degree business that attempts to circumvent the laws of Thailand, the owner of Amerithai has admitted to not properly paying his former teachers until AFTER they involved the police, and the owner of Amerithai has come on this forum posing as a former employee that is reporting a good experience. Maybe the owner had his reasons to do this, but TeflWatch's benefit of the doubt lies with Alliecat and Windex, as it must.

For this reason I have locked down this thread. There is nothing more to be gained from any other posts. It appears as though this Ken could be another figment of Amerithai's mind, but in the interest of fairness, I will leave it here. It is up to readers to come to their own conclusion based on the facts presented.

[slaxster]

as chance would have it, i am in surat thani indefinitely.  i do not care to teach english in this town again.  but here i am with 16 hours a week split between two colleges because i can't say "no".  i was not recommended since nobody knows me and i don't have a tefl.  i would really like to get rid of at least 4 hours (8 even better, all 16 ideal), but apparently everybody around surat is under a contract not to teach freelance. also, rumor has it that the outlying high schools need teachers.

also, if you should come to surat thani, work at amerithai (or whatever they call themselves this month) at your own risk.

[frankenstein]

I spent 6 months in this dump called Surathani town, and what a shithole it was. Frankly, a truly boring ugly town with nothing much to do, the pay was crap as well. I won't recommend this town to anyone. The province is beautiful, though, with lots of attractions. But let's face it, how much free time do you get as a teacher to visit these attractions? Most teachers I knew in Surat, myself included, worked 6-7 days a week just to make ends meet. I teach in Phuket town these days and it's a much nicer place. Phuket town unlike Suratthani town has some character, believe me.

[NamTok]

   In 1998-99 I lived and taught in Surat Thani town. Yes it is small, dumpy and dingy. Almost any place in Thailand has some decent restaurants: Surat Thani town does. Few farangs there. Some Germans and Brits; a few Thais who speak English. Frequent torrential rainstorms at the end of afternoons. Strong ChineseThai presence. Overall, freindly people (especially if you're buying.).
   But there wasn't anything to do except sit, drink and chat with the same people, or to sit and eat, drink and chat with the same people. Or watch UBC, which told me I would get back my deposit after my return move to Bangok and, of  course, I never did. With several moves of residence in Thailand and UBC each time charging for new installation, UBC has about Baht 13,000 of my many deposits which BUC assures me I'l have returned when I leave Thailand. Hmmm......

[Uncle Che]

This school is now listed on our frontpage as a member of the Hall of Shame.

[wrangler]

 

[Thighlander]

I thought this thread might need a "revival."

[anyonefortennis]

Thighlander, I have a wee hunch they are trading under a new name, see the following;

http://www.teflwatch.org/forum/index.php/topic,888.0.html

I could be well of the mark and totally wrong of course, in which case there is no reason to be put off from working for 'The Language'.

Can anyone confirm if they are in fact one of the same?

[anyonefortennis]

These boys are on the prowl again,

http://www.teflasia.com/ajarn/browse_jobs/Thailand/85652.html 

Anyone thinking about working for AmeriThai may which to read thru this thread before doing so, of course they may well be a much better outfit now.